All UNCG students are invited to participate in (or simply attend!) the Philosophy Department's annual Ethics Bowl! What is an Ethics Bowl? An Ethics Bowl is a competition in which small teams of students answer questions about morally complex scenarios. The Ethics Bowl format is distinct from a debate in... Continue reading...
Public Republic is an all-day public reading of the entirety of Republic, Plato's famous treatise on Justice. Each of the ten books of this dialogue will be read out loud, preferably with dramatic flair, by volunteer readers. Everyone is welcome - those willing to read, those who would prefer to... Continue reading...
The planet Earth is a sphere (Technically, it's an ‘oblate spheroid’). So why, since 2016, do an increasing number of people believe that it is flat—something known to be false for over two thousand years? The answer is that they are led to this conclusion by a specific theory of... Continue reading...
